What does your laugh say about you?
A glossary of laughs
Chess’s Governing Body Delays Report on Cheating Scandal
Did Hans Niemann secretly use a supercomputer to beat the world champion? The International Chess Federation won’t say until October, at the earliest.
YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST
How a chunk of human brain survived intact for 2600 years
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 7, 2020 , 7:01 PM
Nearly 2600 years ago, a man was beheaded near modern-day York, U.K.—for what reasons, we still don’t know—and his head was quickly buried in the clay-rich mud. When researchers found his skull in 2008, they were startled to find that his brain tissue, which normally rots rapidly after death, had survived for millennia—even maintaining features such as folds and grooves (above).
Now, researchers think they know why. Using several molecular techniques to examine the remaining tissue, the researchers figured out that two structural proteins—which act as the “skeletons” of neurons and astrocytes—were more tightly packed in the ancient brain. In a yearlong experiment, they found that these aggregated proteins were also more stable than those in modern-day brains. In fact, the ancient protein clumps may have helped preserve the structure of the soft tissue for ages, the researchers report today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST
How a chunk of human brain survived intact for 2600 years
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 7, 2020 , 7:01 PM
Nearly 2600 years ago, a man was beheaded near modern-day York, U.K.—for what reasons, we still don’t know—and his head was quickly buried in the clay-rich mud. When researchers found his skull in 2008, they were startled to find that his brain tissue, which normally rots rapidly after death, had survived for millennia—even maintaining features such as folds and grooves (above).
Now, researchers think they know why. Using several molecular techniques to examine the remaining tissue, the researchers figured out that two structural proteins—which act as the “skeletons” of neurons and astrocytes—were more tightly packed in the ancient brain. In a yearlong experiment, they found that these aggregated proteins were also more stable than those in modern-day brains. In fact, the ancient protein clumps may have helped preserve the structure of the soft tissue for ages, the researchers report today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Clump of Chrysanthemums, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers
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U.S. Deal With JPMorgan Followed a Crucial Call
By BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
A tentative $13 billion settlement between JPMorgan and the Justice
Department was a result of extensive personal outreach from Jamie Dimon,
the bank's chief executive, to the Justice Department.
FEMA Denies Texas Request for Full Disaster Aid, Rankling Stricken Town
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Federal officials determined that the cost of repairing some damage
caused by the explosion in West, Tex., were within the capabilities of
state and local governments.
But that news, reported on Thursday, was quickly followed by the announcement that Larry Page, a Google co-founder, will replace Eric E. Schmidt as chief executive in April.
The move marks a return to the helm of the company for Mr. Page, who left the role in 2001 when Google was still a private company. Mr. Schmidt will become executive chairman, focusing on outside partnerships and government outreach, the company said.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"It’s hard to believe that tunnels that can fill a foot per minute with floodwater could be safer than aboveground Vegas, but many homeless people think they are. No outsider is going to attack you down there in the dark."
MATT O’BRIEN, who runs an outreach group, on the Las Vegas drainage tunnels the homeless use for protection.
Clinton Seeks Shift on China and Stresses Engagement
By MARK LANDLER
In a speech in
New York, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touched on China’s
repression of Tibet and its position as the world’s leading emitter of
greenhouse gases.
Republicans huddle on economy.
~ huddle and clump
On the summit’s second day, the G8 leaders huddle informally, but on the third the “outreach” championed by Japan continues with China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia South Africa and South Korea all invited to discuss carbon emissions and global warming.
That brings together the world’s biggest emitters, but few concrete decisions are likely: after all, a deal to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012, is not due until a UN conference in Copenhagen at the end of 2009. Still, China and India might agree to make bigger verbal commitments to cutting emissions—provided the West makes money and technology available.
U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTONDespite repeated mandates from Congress, the U.S. still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors on temporary visas have left the country.
The free market is dead. It was killed by the Bolshevik Revolution, fascist dirigisme, Keynesianism, the Great Depression, the second world wareconomic controls, the Labour party victory of 1945, Keynesianism again, the Arab oil embargo, Anthony Giddens's “third way” and the current financial crisis. The free market has died at least 10 times in the past century. And whenever the market expires people want to know what Adam Smith would say. It is a moment of, “Hello, God, how's my atheism going?”
---Adam Smith gets the last laugh
P.J. O'Rourke 2009-02-17
自 由市场死了。它死在布尔什维克革命(Bolshevik Revolution)、法西斯统制、凯恩斯主义、大萧条(Great Depression)、第二次世界大战期间的经济控制、1945年工党胜利、凯恩斯主义再度抬头、阿拉伯石油禁运、安东尼•吉登斯(Anthony Giddens)的“第三条路”以及当前金融危机手里。过去一百年里，自由市场至少死了10次。每一次市场失效，人们都希望知道亚当•斯密(Adam Smith)会说些什么。这是一个提问“上帝你好，我的无神论怎样了？”的时刻。
last laugh
n.
Ultimate success or victory, achieved after an apparent failure or loss: After all was said and done, our competitors had the last laugh: they cornered the market.
expire
v., -pired, -pir·ing, -pires. v.intr.
- To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired.
- To breathe one's last breath; die: The patient expired early this morning.
- To exhale; breathe out.
- To breathe (something) out.
- Archaic. To give (something) off.
[Middle English expiren, from Old French expirer, from Latin exspīrāre : ex-, ex- + spīrāre, to breathe.]
huddle
- Informal. To gather together for conference or consultation: During the crisis the President's national security advisers huddled.
━━ n. 乱雑（に積んだもの）; 群衆, 群れ; （秘密）会談 (go into a ～); 【アメフト】ハドル.
huddle,
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
to come close together in a group, or to hold your arms and legs close to your body, especially because of cold or fear:
Everyone huddled round the fire to keep warm.
It was so cold that we huddled together for warmth.
Sophie was so frightened by the noise of the fireworks that she huddled (up) in a corner of the room. In Battle for Dominance,
Wall Street Journal - USA
Google launched public and private efforts to obstruct a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, and Yahoo executives huddled to discuss the alternatives, ...
outreach
adjective [before noun]
when an organization brings medical or similar services to people at home or to where they spend time:
an outreach worker/centre
An AIDS outreach program for prostitutes on the streets. ━━ v. …の先まで達する; 策略にかける; 広げる, 伸びる.
━━ n.
伸ばすこと; 伸ばした距離; （市民運動や福祉活動の）対象者のすそ野を広げる活動.━━ a.
（市民運動や福祉活動の）すそ野拡張の.outreach
Syllabification: (out·reach)
noun
Pronunciation: /ˈoutˌrēCH/
verb
Pronunciation: /ˌoutˈrēCH/
[with object]verb [I]
If something which lasts for a fixed length of time expires, it comes to an end or stops being in use:
Our television license expires next month.
The contract between the two companies will expire at the end of the year.
expiry UK
noun [U] (US expiration)
the expiry of a lease/visa
What is the expiry/expiration date of your credit card (= What is the last date on which it can be used)?
date of expiry of passport
a group, especially of trees or flowers:
a clump of grass/daffodils
verb [I or T]
to form a group, or to put things into a group:
As it started to rain, everyone clumped together in doorways.
emit
verb [T] -tt-
to send out a beam, noise, smell or gas:
The alarm emits infra-red rays which are used to detect any intruder.
The machine emits a high-pitched sound when you press the button.
emission
noun
1 [U] when gas, heat, light, etc. is sent out:
The Green Party have called for a substantial reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases by the UK.
2 [C] an amount of gas, heat, light, etc. that is sent out:
The increased use of natural gas will help reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
aboveground
adj.
- Situated or taking place on or above the surface of the ground: aboveground nuclear testing.
- Operating or existing within the establishment; conventional: journalistic practices unacceptable to the aboveground press.
outreach, out of reach, in reach
government
Pronunciation: /ˈgʌv(ə)nˌm(ə)nt, ˈgʌvəm(ə)nt/
Definition of government
noun
Derivatives
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